[RFC PATCH 00/12] mm/damos/stat: introduce nr_snapshots, max_nr_snapshots and tracepoint

SeongJae Park
2025-11-23T18:43:44Z

Introduce three changes for improving DAMOS stat's provided information,
deterministic control, and reading usability.

DAMOS provides stats that are important for understanding its behavior.
It lacks information about how many DAMON-generated monitoring output
snapshots it has worked on. Add a new stat, nr_snapshots, to show the
information.

Users can control DAMOS schemes in multiple ways. Using the online
parameters commit feature, they can install and uninstall DAMOS schemes
whenever they want while keeping DAMON runs. DAMOS quotas and
watermarks can be used for manually or automatically turning on/off or
adjusting the aggressiveness of the scheme. DAMOS filters can be used
for applying the scheme to specific memory entities based on their types
and locations. Some users want their DAMOS scheme to be applied to only
specific number of DAMON snapshots, for more deterministic control. One
example use case is tracepoint based snapshot reading. Add a new knob,
max_nr_snapshots, to support this. If the nr_snapshots parameter
becomes same to or greater than the value of this parameter, the scheme
is deactivated.

Users can read DAMOS stats via DAMON's sysfs interface. For deep level
investigations on environments having advanced tools like perf and
bpftrace, exposing the stats via a tracepoint can be useful. Implement
a new tracepoint, namely damon:damos_stat_after_apply_interval.

First five patches (patches 1-5) of this series implement the new stat,
nr_snapshots, on the core layer (patch 1), expose on DAMON sysfs user
interface (patch 2), and update documents (patches 3-5).

Following six patches (patches 6-11) are for the new stat based DAMOS
deactivation (max_nr_snapshots). The first one (patch 6) of this group
updates a kernel-doc comment before making further changes. Then an
implementation of it on the core layer (patch 7), an introduction of a
new DAMON sysfs interface file for users of the feature (patch 8), and
three updates of the documents (patches 9-11) follow.

The final one (patch 12) introduces the new tracepoint that exposes the
DAMOS stat values for each scheme apply interval.

SeongJae Park (12):
mm/damon/core: introduce nr_snapshots damos stat
mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: introduce nr_snapshots damos stat file
Docs/mm/damon/design: update for nr_snapshots damos stat
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for nr_snapshots damos stat
Docs/ABI/damon: update for nr_snapshots damos stat
mm/damon: update damos kerneldoc for stat field
mm/damon/core: implement max_nr_snapshots
mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: implement max_nr_snapshots file
Docs/mm/damon/design: update for max_nr_snapshots
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for max_nr_snapshots
Docs/ABI/damon: update for max_nr_snapshots
mm/damon/core: add trace point for damos stat per apply interval

.../ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-damon | 13 ++++++
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst | 11 ++---
Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst | 7 +++
include/linux/damon.h | 12 ++++--
include/trace/events/damon.h | 41 ++++++++++++++++++
mm/damon/core.c | 37 ++++++++++++++--
mm/damon/sysfs-schemes.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++
7 files changed, 153 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

base-commit: 522f1a9fc5f1f0a11af39ba5bedae446322ca0a2
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